Director Ben Affleck on the set of the motion picture 'Argo,' about the secret extraction of U.S. hostages from Iran in 1980.
Keith Bernstein, Warner Bros. Pictures

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Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY

An Iranian director plans to produce Iran's own hostage-release movie in response to Argo, the Oscar-nominated film about a secret operation that extracted six U.S. diplomats from Iran in 1980, Iran's Mehr News Agency reported Friday.

"The movie, entitled The General Staff, is about the 20 American hostages who were delivered to the United States by the revolutionaries," director Ataollah Salmanian told the Persian service of MNA on Tuesday.

"This film, which will be a big production, should be an appropriate response to the ahistoric film Argo," he added. ...